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In the same sense any company still operating in a environment like this and not moving their operation to a stable country is foolish to begin with





Are you suggesting moving operations to the US with this comment? It's the US adding all the uncertainty and instability to this environment. Having your operation based in the US makes this worse. You still have tariffs being applied to most of the components you need to assemble your product. You're now subject to more laws and rules changing overnight without the ability to plan ahead for them. If you're a company selling this product worldwide, you now have 100% of your operations subject to uncertainty vs. say 30% that was destined for the US market to begin with.

Absolutely. To be fair I don't am in this situation (gladly) but I would assume the best way is to focus on other markets and wait this out.

This is why you won't hear many reports of companies paying these huge tariffs. Wyze is big enough to eat the high costs on some of their imports. Most companies will redirect their shipments to Europe and Africa and pause sales in the US until the situation becomes more stable.

In another reply Wyze said they too paused most of their shipments but decided to eat the cost of this one because it was for a commitment to a retailer.



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